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There are many people today who are furious at Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Boehner for accepting this deal and ending the shutdown.

Not me.

I’m done with a fighting a losing battle. I’m more than happy to focus attention on the colossal on-going disaster which is the Obamacare rollout.

The Defund strategy was doomed to fail. But instead of pointing fingers at Boehner and McConnell, conservatives should be happy about what they’ve been able to accomplish these last two years while being realistic about how much can be done while holding only the House. David Freddoso explains it best:

During the Bush era, government grew at an astounding pace under unified GOP rule (exceeded only by its growth over Obama). No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D created very legitimate gripes. And Bush’s Big Government Conservatism” went out with a bang with TARP in 2008.

The resulting distrust has borne horrific and bitter fruit. For many of the rank-and-file on the Right, the assertion that the sky is blue now becomes suspect if Republican leaders say it. Can you blame them? I don’t.

But this means that every deal that Republican leaders cut — and they have to cut deals when they don’t control all the levers of government — is automatically viewed as a sell-out, no matter what. This includes deals that worked out very well for conservatives, such as the one that created sequestration, and the one that limited the automatic tax increases at the beginning of this year. Many conservatives won’t be convinced that these were relatively good in context, simply because they feel like they’ve heard this tune before in 2005 and 2006.

The reactions I’m seeing from my friends on Facebook seems much more emotional than reasoned. There are way too many people who want to waste all their ammo on McConnell and Boehner.

What they should do is focus on vulnerable Democrats up for reelection next year who support Obamacare.

“I’m laughing because while you spend all your time getting mad at McConnell, I’ll go win myself another six year term to the Senate.”

Folks like Mark Begich.

Who is Mark Begich, you ask? Well, he’s a pro-abortion Democrat from Alaska. He squeaked into office in 2008 after defeating incumbent Republican Ted Stevens. Stevens was being investigated by the FBI for corruption — and Begich still managed to only win 47.8% of the vote.

We can defeat him.

This Obamacare law is completely owned by the Democratic Party and President Obama. Not one Republican voted for this legislation. And we’ve throw every roadblock we can at it. Obamacare has been and continues to be an unmitigated disaster.

Many opponents of Obamacare alleged that “if we don’t stop Obamacare now, then we will never stop it.” Well, if that is true, then we already lost this battle back on Election Day 2012. Because there was no way we were going to win this shutdown fight. Not with just one House.

But repealing Obamacare in January 2017 is still possible. But we need to get our heads out of the sand.

I didn’t agree with the strategy, but we tried it. And it didn’t work. As Larry Kudlow says, even the University of Alabama football team has to punt once in awhile. The time will come to fight this battle again.

And 12 months is a long time in politics. With every passing month, more and more people will be suffering from the effects of this horrible legislation. Come next November, the American electorate will be ready to support candidates who will do everything they can to slow this down and roll this back.

We can be ready for this.

The Republican Party can legitimately say that they did everything they could to prevent all of this harm from befalling on the American people.

Or we can spend the next 12 months attacking Boehner and McConnell.

I’ll tell you what I’d rather do. I’d like to spend every day of the next 12 months trying to oust Senators representing red states. People like Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Mark Begich of Alaska.

(For those keeping score, the last two are pro-abortion Senators who claim to be “Catholic”).

All four are up for reelection in 2014.

All four can be replaced with Senators who will vote for repeal of Obamacare in 2015 to send that repeal bill to Obama’s desk, where it will promptly be vetoed.

But these Senators will still be in office when a new President takes the oath in January 2017.

And all four of these politicians can be replaced by Senators who would vote for Conscience Protections. We lost that fight by a narrow 51-48 margin — even had three Democrats vote our way. But if you get rid of Hagan, Pryor, Landrieu, and Begich, then this Blunt amendment passes and it’s attached to an appropriations bill. Would Obama veto the entire appropriation over this provision? He might. But he hasn’t had to make that decision yet. Let’s force the issue.

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congressional dems lead by 8 in the polls and Begich holds a lead in his polls as well as Sen. Landrieau Sen. Peyor and Hagen the extremist will get MT WV and SD but could lose GA and KY so do not think you have a cake walk also the GOP has many hard seats to defend.

The Church would be in much better shape in the US if the bishops would start condemning any vote for a left-of-center party as intrinsically evil. St. Thomas and St. Augustine both condemned tyranny (See I-II Q. 96 Art. 4 of the Summa Theologica) as abuse of government, and the democrats have been doing that since 1913 with the graduated income tax. Anyone voting for a left-of-center party, in fact, ought to be threatened with excommunication for both crimes relating to abortion and to economic tyranny. No joke!

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